LEAD: NEW York's medical establishment renewed its argument last week over whether doctors at the start of their hospital training should work shorter hours under closer supervision to help prevent deadly mistakes. But despite protests from some h...

August 23, 1987, Sunday

LEAD: IT has been a year and four months since Bill and Joyce Chadwick were married. So far, they have paid $950 of the $1,271.39 that they owe for their wedding pictures, but they have yet to receive them.

June 13, 1987, Saturday

LEAD: MOST people think that the yellow pages are the yellow pages and that the only thing they need to look for when they reach for a copy is the color. Not anymore. New York became a town with two yellow-page telephone directories in November, a...

June 6, 1987, Saturday

LEAD: AT the University of Wisconsin's fast-food laboratory here, the sesame-seed buns were delayed somewhere in browning. As a result, flame-broiled meat patties were dropping helter-skelter onto bare conveyor belts and a computer-controlled arm ...

May 27, 1987, Wednesday

LEAD: DURING the Depression, people often took out second mortgages just to get by. The practice, however, cost many their homes. Since Congress enacted the new tax law, banks have heavily promoted a new version of the second mortgage, called a ho...

May 23, 1987, Saturday

LEAD: For the last five months, tax investigators have searched streets by night and subpoenaed garages' customer lists seeking to track down New York residents who violate the law by registering their cars outside the state.

May 17, 1987, Sunday

LEAD: One skin cream now on the market promises to ''prevent, postpone and minimize the effects of the aging process.'' Another asserts it will ''re-create the structure of a young skin.'' And a third says it will ''cause cells to divide and repro...

May 2, 1987, Saturday

LEAD: ONE of the most successful new tickets offered by airlines is the ''maxsaver,'' an extremely low fare with an unusual catch: it is nonrefundable. Since airlines started selling the ticket in January, travel associations have credited it with...

April 25, 1987, Saturday

LEAD: IN the first half of the 1980's, the nation's elderly saw their median income rise by about 16 percent while that of the rest of the population either rose slightly, stayed about the same or fell.